Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-06

all INDECENT ex.Union soldiers shall be in
TERED at the public expense, at an expense
OF not 80 exceed $35 for each interment;
appropriating $4,000 to the governor
contingent fund for each of the years
ISS7'S. Bills were passed: Providing that
IN any case where no one is dependent on
an insane patient for support, So SO per
week shall be taken from the estate OF
that patient for his care in any state or
county asylum, permitting the state
board OF charities and reform to condemn,
In certain cases, detective or unhealthy
la1ls, police stations or lock-ups, prohibit
Ing the employment, gilmore persons in any
factory, Workshop, etc., than the laws of
health Will warrant; requiring each work
man to have at least 500 cubic feet OF air
space; compelling all watts Of hot liquids to
be guarded, as well es machinery, and max
ing the penalty for violation to be not less
than ~ per day during such violation;
prohibiting any railroad company from
discriminating in any way, in regard to
passenger or freight rates, except in behalf
OF property belonging to the sta te and
property for exhibition at agricultural
fairs, the RAILROAD company to be liable
for all damages sustained by any person
on account OF any discrimination against
them; prohibiting state aid to any agri-
cultural society which has failed to pay it's
premiums In full at it's last fair; permitting
county judges, when sworn evidence war
rants the proceeding to remove children
from the care OF abusive or negligent
parents or guardians. and making it
misdemeanor for such children to be en-.
ticed from the place provided for them by
the judges; providing that any two or
more employees who shall combine for the
purpose OF preventing any person seeking
employment from obtaining such employ
ment by threats of the circulation Of the
black list shall be guilty of q misdemeanor,
punishable by q maximum imprisonment
OF twelve months or fine Of not less than
800 or both; authorizing circuit judges to
appoint an assistant to the district attor-
ney in all cases where the prisoner may be
punished by imprisonment.
MADISON, March 31.-In the assembly
bills were concurred in Making the stand
ard cranberry barrel 222 inches high, 16A
inches In diameter at the head and IS
inches at the bilge, and making the stand
ard bushel crate 20 inches long LIZ inches
wide and TX inches deep; for the protection
ns fish in inland waters. The Joint assem-
bly, resolution, asking congress to pass g.
law pensioning all ex-union soldiers who
were confined in Southern prisons, was
adopted. Bills passed: Amending the law
prohibiting debtors from giving preference
to creditors, and to secure the equal dis
trlbutlon OF property among all creditors;
giving the local authorities the power to
regulate auctions and auctioneers and
also to compel the payment of a license
and percentage on their sales by non-resi-
dent taxpayers, who visit place tempo
rarily Tor the purpose Of disposing of so.
called bankrupt stocks" etc.; making it
unlawful for any clerk or inspector OF
elections to issue or writ, change or alter
for any person on the day Of any election
any ballot, and making it q misdemeanor
for such officer to disclose how any elector
voted, unless as q witness in g. judicial in
vestigation; removing the necessity OF de-
scrlblng exempt property in certain cases
OF voluntary assignment; prohibiting boys
under 16 years Of age from being sent to
state prison, and permitting them to be
sentenced to the state Industrial school
till IL years OF age; making the manufac-
ture, sale, purchase or secretion of any ex-
plosive, OF greater violence than ordinary
gunpowder, unless for la wful purposes, pun
ishable by q maximum fine or imprison-
ment OF SIS, 600 and two years respectively;
requiring persons handling such explosives
to give formal notice of the fact to the
town, city or village clerk; and requiring all
persons handling such explosives to secure
license for the purpose. The Assembly
killed the bill providing that convicts be
employed to print text books for common
schools.
MADISON, April 1.-Senate bills concurred
in: Providing for the subdivision and plat
ting of lands owned in severalty permitting
but not requiring town and village boards
and common councils to grant pharmacists
permits to sell Intoxicating liquors for
medicinal purposes, and prohibiting phar-
macists from selling such liquor except on
the presentation OF q certificate from a
physician. Bills were passed: Requiring rail-
way companies to carry livestock in Lixed
car loads, providing that ifferent kinds of
stock are separated by partitions; permit
ting the insurance commissioner to revoke
the license OF any insurance company which
fails to pay the 2 per cent. fire tax; permit
ting not less than twenty five residents OF
the same place. owning property valued at
$50, 900, which they wish to insure, to es-
ducing the rate Of interest on the unpaid
portion of the purchase money on sales of
public lands from z to per cent.